Professor Marcio J. T. da Costa

@workingpaper{cysne2023ultrathin,

title = {Ultrathin films of black phosphorus as suitable platforms for unambiguous observation of the orbital Hall effect},

author = {Tarik P. Cysne and Marcio Costa and Marco Buongiorno Nardelli and R. B. Muniz and Tatiana G. Rappoport},

url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03866},

doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2307.03866},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

urldate = {2023-01-01},

abstract = {Phosphorene, a monolayer of black phosphorus, is a two-dimensional material that lacks a multivalley structure in the Brillouin zone and has negligible spin-orbit coupling. This makes it a promising candidate for investigating the orbital Hall effect independently of the valley or spin Hall effects. To model phosphorene, we utilized a DFT-derived tight-binding Hamiltonian, which is constructed with the pseudo atomic orbital projection method. For that purpose, we use the PAOFLOW code with a newly implemented internal basis that provides a fairly good description of the phosphorene conduction bands. By employing linear response theory, we show that phosphorene exhibits a sizable orbital Hall effect with strong anisotropy in the orbital Hall conductivity for the out-of-plane orbital angular momentum component. The magnitude and sign of the conductivity depend upon the in-plane direction of the applied electric field. These distinctive features enable the observation of the orbital Hall effect in this material unambiguously. The effects of strain and of a perpendicularly applied electric field on the phosphorene orbital-Hall response are also explored. We show that a supplementary electric field applied perpendicular to the phosphorene layer in its conductive regime gives rise to an induced in-plane orbital magnetization.},

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pubstate = {published},

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}